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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 3129777, member: 86498&quot;]When trying to establish a group like this, I think some basic criteria has to be established. I think any coin that should be included in such a list should fall into one or more of the following groups.</p><p>1. They were important in their day as a means of payment. I would include in this group The Athenian &quot;Owl&quot;, the Corinthian stater, The gold and or silver coinage of the Persian Empire ( Daric / Siglos) Philip II of Macedon and Alexander III of Macedon.</p><p>2. Watershed moments in the history of the coinage. In this group I would include the very early electrum coinage, the Kroisos bimetalic coinage as well as the portrait of Alexander on either the Ptolemaic or Lysimachos coinage,&nbsp; The portrait coinage of Ptolemy I, the portrait coinage of Julius Caesar. The first aes coins out of Sicily, The &quot;signed&quot; period out of Syracuse. The antoninianus of Caracalla, the Follis of Diocletian.</p><p>3. Watershed moments of history. This would include the Iudaea series of Vespasian, the Egypt series of Augustus, The Dacian series of Trajan</p><p>4. Coins which became important to us this would include the &quot;Tribute Penny&quot; of Tiberius. The early Christian reference coins of Rome</p><p>This list is by no means exhaustive. I do not think that coins that are important should be excluded just because they fall at either end of the price spectrum. My suspicion is that the first hundred or so would have wide consensus but after that there be dragons.[ATTACH=full]798179[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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